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Corticospinal Excitability Modulation During Action Observation
Published on: December 31, 2013
Recordings, behaviour and models related to corticothalamic feedback
G L Gerstein1, K L Kirkland, P G Musial
1Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. george@mulab.physiol.upenn.edu
Abstract:
In this paper, we review recent work on aspects of corticothalamic interactions in the auditory and in the visual systems. There are gross similarities in the arrangements of these systems, but considerable contrasts in the processing computations and in the effects of corticothalamic feedback.
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